Do you want this kind of camp counselor watching your kids?

WARNING: EXPLICIT PHOTOS BELOW

Isaak Momsen was 20 when someone snapped the above photo of him. He was also a counselor at Summerkids camp in the Altadena, California.

Summerkids was the same facility responsible for killing our 6-year-old daughter Roxie, according to the exact language of the publicly available legal Complaint. She drowned when counselors ignored her to death in the small facility pool.

Momsen’s public Instagram page is rife with photos of him slugging back shots and beers, smoking weed, exchanging clever cheeky about his time at Summerkids, such as the one below.

In fact, Momsen is seen here trading barbs with the most senior counselor who neglected Roxie to death in the Summerkids pool. This 30-year-old Summerkids counselor and teacher writes, “Ah shit timmys crying again. Whose turn is it?!” This same person ran from the scene when Roxie died on his watch.

Although Momsen was not apparently at the small Summerkids pool when counselors ignored Roxie to death, he was involved in the aftermath. The above photo of him apparently defines what Momsen thinks about good judgment. He gets drunk poolside and publicly pronounces how proud he is to do so, despite having to report to Summerkids early the next morning to take care of children, and presumably, at some point, to guard very young lives at the over-crowded pool.

Momsen apparently returned to Summerkids this past summer of 2021, as a 23-year-old counselor who continues to post photos of his latest binge-drinking triumphs.

Perhaps most important to understand, the Summerkids co-owner and director hired Momsen and all counselors. She has been one of Momsen’s Instagram followers. In fact, she admittedly followed numerous young Summerkids counselors, like Roxie’s buddy counselor who also ignored Roxie to death in the Summerkids pool.

That buddy counselor is the son of Jim Rainey, a longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times who worked with the Summerkids director.

Before Roxie’s buddy counselor made his Instagram page private, his photos ranged from urinating on a black-owned restaurant to posting a jovial photo of himself the day after Roxie died. Apparently, Jim Rainey and his wife Alison, a public relations rep at the University of Southern California think that’s “just boys being boys,” according to Alison’s own recorded words.

And what did the Summerkis camp director do about her underage, party-loving counselors complicit in killing a kid? Nothing, of course.

Her concept of good judgment is ostensibly what is on trial.

Summerkids counselor with bong in the foreground

She is a 50-something mother of two daughters, both of whom attended Summerkids. She was certainly privy to what counselors like Momsen and the others who neglected Roxie to death were up to on social platforms. Her readily apparent attitude: “So what?”

And then June 28, 2019 happened — a little girl dies because a camp director enabled the death, according to volumes of transcripts, Court docket entries, exhibits and admissions. And, again, her response: nothing to see here.

After all, she kept the camp open the entire day Roxie drowned due to grossly negligent acts, according to volumes of transcripts, Court docket entries, exhibits and admissions, despite traumatized children who saw a little girl die right before their eyes. Incidentally, she also kept our tuition payment for three months until we had an attorney force her to refund it.

In fact, she kept the camp open every day thereafter. She covered up the circumstances surrounding Roxie’s death, according to volumes of transcripts, Court docket entries, exhibits and admissions. And, she never reprimanded or even retrained the counselors who neglected Roxie to death, or should I say, the fake lifeguards for whom she admittedly facilitated their fraudulent Red Cross certifications. She admitted she was “ultimately responsible.”

She was responsible for killing Roxie, according to the exact language of the publicly available legal Complaint. She chose to operate a recreational higher risk child care facility like she chose to deal with accountability. In other words, she did nothing. She admitted nothing. She never even bothered to apologize. In fact, she was so remorseless, that she prevented us from getting the answers about Roxie’s death that we so desperately deserved.

In fact, she put another child in the hospital with a serious injury only weeks after killing Roxie.

And four days after that EMS call, EMS apparently responded to another Summerkids call, according to fire department records.

As it turns out, there were at least eight EMS calls related to Summerkids in only three seasons.

As we now know, the camp director and her doctor-brother and former Pasadena City College teacher-parents also spearheaded a scheme that afforded Momsen and the other fake lifeguard certifications. Dozens of counselors spent a few hours in a pool with a fake American Red Cross instructor and went home the same day as fully certified lifeguards and water safety instructors.

Anyone with an elementary school education knows that’s not how it works.

We know that the camp director and her father hired the fake Red Cross instructor. He fraudulently certified himself like he fraudulently certified upwards of 100 or more Summerkids counselors who did not undergo requisite training or any testing.

Why would this camp-owning family do this? To pocket more money by shortcutting training time for employees and hiring a fake lifeguard instructor desperate to earn quick cash, according to volumes of transcripts, Court docket entries, exhibits and admissions. These camp owners chose money over properly trained lifeguards to watch children as young as three in her over-crowded pool.

The camp owners also covered up the truth by blaming Roxie for her own drowning. This outrageous language is in their publicly available legal documents.

It’s true. Their attorney Margaret Holm — the same woman who defended USA Gymnastics against the myriad girls and women whom Larry Nassar raped — said in publicly available court documents that Roxie’s death was essentially of her own doing.

To top it all off, as we battled our own wills to live while seeking answers to how our child died in the Summerkids pool, the camp director and her family immediately shut us out of all camp communications so we couldn’t ask other parents for information. Theyy shut us out of a maeeting at the camp where parents demanded answers about the drowning so they could control the narrative. They immediately lied to thousands of parents that we demanded our privacy, which was an intentional effort to prevent us from getting those answers and, again, to control the narrative. And, they lied to major media, again stating that we demanded privacy.

This was not only despicable but also as inhumane as can be and a telltale sign that something extraordinarily dubious occurred to cause Roxie’s horrific death.

In a few short months, families will begin to sign-up their kids for camps. That’s because camps have fast become as competitive as private schools.

But instead of making a decision based on what you hear from your friends or from camp owner-operators themselves, make sure you actually see and learn about who will be in charge of your children and why you should trust them.

Camp counselors at another camp

Camp counselors at another camp

Camp counselor at another camp

Ask about social media policies. Ask about references and background checks. Ask about how camp owners vet counselor candidates, how they train them, what they expect of their public-facing comportment. Show them the photo of Momsen and ask them what they think about him — an underage camp counselor — getting drunk poolside in his boxers while his 50-year-old camp director/boss apparently condones such behavior, despite being in charge of 900 children, some as young as three.

Sadly, these are not exceptions. Camps across the country condone such behavior if not far worse. It’s why sexual assault and other abuse persists in droves at facilities with owner-operators who prioritize profiteering over proper protocols.

In fact, take a look at these photos of camp counselors at a camp known for raping children and covering up the circumstances, just as Summerkids covered up the circumstances of Roxie’s killing.

While camps should be fun and games, protecting your children from harm should not.